10 October 1881 • Hartford, Conn. (MS: CtHMTH, UCCL 12678)
(Forgot to say I expressed the original MS of P & P to you some time ago from Elmira.)
I don’t know whether the enclosed from Webster is to be sent to you, or whether it is only a copy to inform me what he has written you. However, I send it, to make sure.
We are experimenting on a far better method of casting brass dies than that employed in making the others, & we shall know before long whether it is going to succeed or not. If it succeeds, we can trot your work through for you as fast as you can send it: but for the present we should have to use the old method & depend on other people’s furnaces & workmen; & so Webster is very properly afraid of delaying your work & thereby doing you more harm than good.
If you’ve got lots of time to spare, send Webster your designs & he will cast them in the old way; but don’t, if you haven’t plenty of time, for I don’t want the discomfort & responsibility of delaying you.
MS, CtHMTH.
American Art Association catalog, 16 April 1925, lot 28, partial publication; Sotheby’s catalog, 19 June 2003, lot 47, partial publication.
Purchased at the Sotheby’s sale of 19 June 2003 from the collection of Nick Karanovich.
More information on provenance may be found in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.